If there’s one thing that I have to explain to people it’s what I do as the full-time managing editor of a student newspaper. Partly, because people have assumptions and partly because it’s a job that’s constantly evolving.
For reporters it seems that getting media access to senior government officials is becoming more difficult with an increased emphasis on controlling the messaging. Stephen Harper’s cold war with the Parliamentary Press Gallery is legendary complete with limiting questions, requiring reporters to sign into press conferences, trying to remove a cameraman from a flight after…
Hello and welcome to the first post of my new blog as the editor of The Dialog newspaper. In this blog I’m going to take you behind the scenes of The Dialog and show you the discussions that happen in our newsroom. I want you to know why we make some of the decisions we…
